Water-closet



(No Model.)

G. G. PHILLIPS.

WATER CLOSET.

No. 261,818. Patented Ju1y 25, 1882.

N. PETER; l mbmbagmpl'gar. Wnlhinglnn. n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE C. PHILLIPS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

WATER-CLOSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 261,818, dated July 25, 1882.

7 Application filed April 17, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE UHrLsoN PHIL- LIPS, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, of the State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Water-Glosets; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which--- Figure 1 is a lop view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, Fig. 3 a transverse and vertical section, and Fig. 4 a horizontal section, of a water closet combined bowl and hopper of my improved kind. I I

Prior to myinvention it has been customary to construct the bowl and hopper of what is usually termed a hopper water-closet in separate pieces provided with flanges for securing them together; and it has also been customary to unite the ventiductor ventilating pipe or conduit of the hopper to such hopper at the lower end only of such pipe. As a consequence the pipe, even when the material of the hopper was cast-iron, and particularly when of earthen or what is termed china Ware, was very liable to become broken, thereby rendering the hopper of little or no use. Furthermore, as the joint between the flanges of the bowl and hopper had to be filledwiith putty or cement to'render it sufficiently tight,

such putty or cement was liable in time to shrink or crack or work loose and cause the joint to leak water from the hopper, whereby damage to ceilings or parts below or in the vicinity of the water-closet ensued.

In carrying out my invention Iconstruct the bowl and the hopper in one piece of ma terial, and thus do away with the joint between them and the flanges necessary to them when they are made in separate pieces, and, instead of connecting the ventilator-pipe at its lower end only to the hopper, I carry such pipe up alongside of and against the hopper or outer surface of the combined bowl andhopper, from its flange nearly to its top or that of the hopper, and make the next adjacent part of the hopper, or such and the bowl, a part of such pipe, whereby by so doing I. not only strengthen the pipe in order to prevent it from being broken away from the hopper, but I make the pipe a means of stren gthenin gthe hopper, thus gaining a double advantage thereby,

particularlywhen the combined bowl and'hopper are madeot' earthen or china ware-as I manufacture and sell them-for when so made and D the ventiduct or ventilating-pipe of the hopper, a being the flange for supporting the hopper. r

In Figs. 3 and 4 the portion 1) ofthe hopper is shown as making part of the hopper B and part of the ventiduct D, the latter being extended up alongside of and against the hopper and joined in one piece therewith. Furthermore, in Fig. 3 the ventiduct is shown as having two openings, 0 and r], into the hopper, the upper one, (1, leading out of the space 0, surrounding the extension of the bowl within the hopper. In case of accidental interference or stoppage of the opening oby paper or other. matter the fecal odors will escape by the passage d, or air will be drawn down through such passage whilewater for the lavation of the bowl is being discharged from the bowl in to the hopper.

I claim- 1. The combined water-closet bowl and hopper having the ventiduct extended upward alongside of and against the outer surface'of the hopper and formed in part by the hopper, asset forth.

2. The bowl extended downward within the hopper, in combination with the hopper provided with the ventiduct leading out of the lower part of it, and also with the passage or duct d, leading from the hopper into the ventiduct from the space 0 about theextension of the bowl within the hopper, all being substantially as set forth.

3. Thebowland hopper in one piece, and arranged as described, and provided with the ventiduct projecting upward from the hopper and formed in part thereby, and having main and auxiliary openings leading into it from the hopper, all substantially as set forth.

GEORGE GHILSON PHILLIPS.'

Witnesses:

G. W. CRAWFORD, J. M. GARTWELL. 

